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Producer: Model Shipways

Code: MS2033

NEW BEDFORD WHALEBOAT

Length 24" / Height 4-5/8" / Scale 3/4" = 1 ft (1:16)

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Scale: 1/16

Length 24" / Height 4-5/8" / Scale 3/4" = 1 ft (1:16)

 

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Price: 149 € incl. VAT

 

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From 1720 to 1920 nearly 60,000 whaleboats were consumed by the American whaling industry. With a useful life of no more than three years, whaleboats were discarded on the spot throughout the coastal U.S. and around the world. Remarkably, only a dozen or two have survived to become part of today's museum collections.

In 1916, the Dartmouth Historical Society commissioned the building of a half sized model of the bark LAGODA. Local whaleboat builder Joshua Delano was retained to build the seven half-sized model whaleboats needed for the project. Delano built these models according to the design of the full-sized boats he had built for the whaling industry for more than forty years.

Whaling historian Erik A.R. Ronnberg, Jr. made a thorough study of Delano s half-sized boats in order to produce this kit of a uniquely American working craft.

You'll follow the original plank-on-frame method of construction in building your

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